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Max has received this now but it may be awhile before any photos come- the household is ailing and I don't want them to feel rushed to take photos. Feel better soon, Krista and Lucy! Stay healthy, Max!
I blatantly copied the artwork of Cecilia Rebora for this quilty- I hope she won't mind. I changed a few things around, but no one could ever accuse me of being an orginal artist. lol
Thanks to many quilty friends, I am making progress on my "Ode to Denyse" quilt!
White or Stone for the background??
"Congratulations, to your ghost"
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Came across this old boat at the back of the old pier in Quilty. Somebody loved it once judging by what's left of the paint work. Wonder what happened it's owner or why it was abandoned.
Tromra Castle, Quilty, Co Clare, Ireland.
This is part of an ongoing series of pictures I have taken recently which looks at castles (including tower houses) to be found throughout County Clare.
This particular building dates from the late 1400s, although records show that the site was a hive of activity in the 12th century all the way through until the 18th century. The most infamous attack on Tromra occurred in 1642 when Edmond O'Flaherty of Galway (a member of a Gaelic Irish family which had to flee the Anglo-Normans in the 13th century) and his men surrounded the garrison and the Wards, who were English settlers at Tromra. Although O'Flaherty was intent on plunder and ordered his men to spare the Ward family, things got out of hand and when Peter Ward refused to surrender he, his wife and one of his sons were killed.
Although a number of such castles are used to this day (e.g. Bunratty, Doonagore, and others), most have fallen into ruin such as this one. There is enough of it standing to show that it is a plain 'peel tower' and the masonry that remains is small and neat. Over time, many of the ornamental architectural features such as the coign stones, mouldings and other decorative pieces have disappeared. The castle is situated close to where one of the ships of the Spanish Armada foundered on the reef between Tromra and Mutton Island in 1588.
[Walker Titan XL 5x4 camera with 120mm Schneider Angulon lens. Ilford FP4 Plus rated at 100 iso and developed in R09 1:100 for 30 minutes.]
Pattern from Michelle Patterns.
I'm trying to incorporate "quilts" into small projects so that I will stop adding to my neglected quilt tops pile.
The choice to move from war artist George Lambert’s self-assured self-portrait, and this dramatic painting of a returned veteran from the Afghan war is deliberate on my part. So is the choice of black and white. Colour tends to mesmerise, and here I want you to focus on all the elements in my composition. At the top left hand corner the face of Brett Whiteley appears to be taking a peek at the naked soldier in Ben Quilty’s stunning and moving 2012 portrait of Captain “S”. www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/artboards/archie-100/what-lies-...
The Brett Whiteley cameo is from his own triptych which we’ll come to later. But Quilty’s choice of thick paint (you must enlarge this) applied with a palette knife creates a disturbing sense of a body that is at once still alive, but also in many ways already a corpse. There is no doubt here that contemporary war artist Ben Quilty is addressing head-on the issue of PTSD and the depravities of this pointless modern war.
Another artist I highly recommend in this regard is Quilty's colleague in Afghanistan, George Gittoes. Listen to him tell these incredible stories: www.youtube.com/watch?v=714QAXRllp4
Gittoes' book, "Blood Mystic", is truly an example of how art from war zones can change lives.
Remember the ignominious end of the Aghan war recently with the clumsy American withdrawal? Well guess who’s back in power in Kabul now? It was clearly Vietnam 2.0, and like then, our government followed the USA down this ridiculous rabbit-hole, all in the name of keeping the Military-Industrial Complex making profits (a term coined by the conservative President and former General Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s as he tried to warn us of what was happening). Don’t get me started on 9/11.
Let me be completely inflammatory now, since this is the only weapon I have to fight these Masters of War (that Bob Dylan so wonderfully eviscerated!): The war in Ukraine now threatens to escalate to World War 3. You are aware by now I hope that the US Congress has spent over $100 Billion on Ukraine already in what is clearly a proxy war with Russia. Where have we seen such a proxy war before? Well Vietnam of course. History repeats and the casualties of war include not just the innocent civilians, but the tens of thousands of soldiers who die, and those like Captain “S” who return home the living dead, spurned as lepers by their own country and many taking their own lives. It’s a damnable disgrace!
Am I angry? You are damn right I am. There’s a special place in Hell reserved for those who profit from war. As Dylan put it so magnificently when he wrote about Vietnam (but really every war):
“Come you masters of war
You that build the big guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks…
And I hope that you die
And your death will come soon
I'll follow your casket
By the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead.”
My title borrows from the literary critic Harold Bloom. It speaks to the influence of artistic predecessors. Each of the three paintings in my collage here are linked artistically.
The most important early colonial painter in Van Diemen's Land was undoubtedly John Glover (1767-1849). I've told his story elsewhere so you can look it up.
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At the top is Glover's "The Last Muster of Tasmanian Aborigines at Risdon 1836". Risdon is in the south near Hobart, and strangely enough today is the site of the modern prison. It is not unlike another of his works painted at Mills Plains (northern Tasmania) in 1836. www.flickr.com/photos/luminosity7/50571363822/in/album-72...
Now from the time of his arrival in the colony as a free settler (1825) Van Diemen's Land was on the verge of a declaration of martial law. Glover was granted land and a group of convicts to work it for him. Of course the land itself had already been cleared of most of its aboriginal inhabitants. But Glover's paintings, where they show aborigines, are always sympathetic, and perhaps Glover himself is simply beholden to the Romantic notion of the "noble savage".
In taking the photograph of Glover's painting I intentionally wanted to get my own shadow reflected on the glass. That's me with my camera on a tripod. Why? Because, despite the fact I have nothing personally to do with the horrific treatment of the original inhabitants of this land, this historic shadow falls across my path and that of every one of Australia's immigrant settlers.
Ben Quilty understands this in his 2018 painting titled, "Development Application (John Glover)". Now Ben Quilty is an official Australian war artist, having served in covering the war in Afghanistan. www.flickr.com/photos/luminosity7/52657370516/in/album-72...
John Glover's farm at Patterdale was built on land that had been cleared of its original inhabitants during the Black War.
At the bottom right is a very different abstract kind of landscape by local artist Robyn McKinnon. It is called, "Mr Glover's Antipodean Garden, 2007". Now look at Glover's original work. www.agsa.sa.gov.au/collection-publications/collection/wor...
This is quite possibly Glover's most idyllic painting, clearly showing how much he had grown to love the land around Mills Plains in the ten years he'd spent in the colony.
Robyn McKinnon has certainly captured the beauty of Glover's garden, but it is a little wilder than he might have imagined.
* Each of these photographs were taken with my Nikon D850.
My Quilt made it on Quilty!
Video and in Quilty magazine. So much fun!
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A trial run before I start hacking into my half yard cuts of Hope Valley to make a quilt for our bed! A baby quilt made from a jelly roll and charm pack, and I made the patchwork binding out of leftover strips. Love this collection!!! Oh, and I used an Ikea cotton fabric for the back.
i need input
i got the petals and center quilted. i want to do something around the edges. i was thinking of doing a circle then doing the same type of crosshatching....your thoughts?
also, does this look like utter shite?
please be honest. if you would hate to get this because of the quilting job, please say so, i have a couple other ideas for quilties
"you haven't seen devils till you've felt them all"
song: Right Away, Great Captain
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It was so sunny and pleasant out yesterday that Dylan offered to haul some of the ol' quilts out for a photo shoot. (Thank you as always, Dylan!) There's an old train station and adjacent barn building that had been neglected for years, but they've renovated the barn in recent months, and it seems like it's a public community space now. I guess I should have taken some actual photos of it!
Anyway, here are a few long-delayed shots of the thrift blocks quilt I finished a few months back! I decided on the border after seeing something similar in a Kaffe Fassett book. You might notice that the border is made up of scraps as well as triangles of an olive/multi-coloured print: that's the Marie Jacobi Berlin metro print that I love oh so much. There are, like, 15+ colours in the print! Plus it's just full of character, and it's nice to see a map print that isn't about Paris;) I ordered a ton of it -- basically all that was left -- from Superbuzzy last year, knowing all along that I wanted to back the quilt with it.
I also spent a long time thinking about the binding, but ultimately I went with Joel Dewberry's Aviary woodgrain, which was gifted to me by my friend Paul last year. Paul had gifted one FQ of the brown print to me (it was an FQ bundle), so I thought I just needed one additional FQ to get the job done. Of course, that additional FQ still had me coming up short, because I never measure when I should:P So a little bit of the border is in the yellow woodgrain. I think brown would have been better, but I felt like I had to teach myself a lesson for not buying the right amount:P
Anyway, thank you again for carrying my quilts around, Dylan. Maybe someday I'll be able to let some go and sell them off!
look at this beauty, I'm IN LOVE, think this is one of the prettiest quilties I've ever got
thanks so much Solidia
The 2011 Archibald prize winning portrait of Margaret Olley by Ben Quilty .
Margaret Olley Exhibition
Qld. State Art Gallery
Brisbane
jux·ta·po·si·tion [juhk-stuh-puh-zish-uhn]
noun
1.an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
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Silort and I have been swapping 4 inch (finished) blocks since February of last year... This is how they look together so far! I think this is going to be one of my favorite quilty's ever! (I threw in both Mushroom houses even though one will be going to Sil for an even 16 blocks...) We'll have 24 when we're done!
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My first all voile quilt top, backed with flannel. Oh MY! It's so SOFT!
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What a surprise it was to open a package and receive this wonderful quilt made by wonderful virtual quilty friends.. My daughter is asking you to raise your hand if the house quilt so go to her;). Smile. We appreciate the love and prayers you sent with this quilt. Thanks for the encouragement that will provide me strength.
What do you think, dear partner.....are you OK with the way it's coming along? I'm excited to sew the blocks together and I think it's going to need a border, don't you? Or not? ;) I'm sure having fun with your little quilty!!
Thanks for the comments on the quilt top, it inspired the name. From sailing flags to this. I can't wait to hang it in my office to remind me of quilty time while I work.
finally back into the quilty groove! though, i can't count worth a lick, so i don't have a finished quilt top quite yet to show off.
glad to finally find my way back to flickr, though!
Uberstitch has done it again! Lovely mini, extra mug rug, full tea set with yummy sounding tea, and omigosh gorgeous fat quarters...
Many thanks!
Taken with Yashica MAT 124G + Kodak Ektar 100
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